In This Episode
Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara joins to walk through Attorney General William Barr’s 4-page summary of Robert Mueller’s final report, as we talk about what it all means and what comes next. Then we discuss Kirsten Gillibrand’s announcement speech, Bernie Sanders’s big rallies and mosque visit, and Kamala Harris’s new plan to increase teacher pay. Also – Pod Save America is going on tour! Get your tickets now: crooked.com/events.
Show Notes:
The Mueller Report (with Preet Bharara)
- New York Times: Mueller Finds No Trump-Russia Conspiracy but Stops Short of Exonerating President on Obstruction of Justice
- EmptyWheel: HOW WILLIAM BARR DID OLD MAN BACK-FLIPS TO AVOID ARRESTING DONALD TRUMP
- EmptyWheel: THE MUELLER REPORT, THE SHORT VERSION
- Huffington Post: The Mueller Report Summary’s Biggest Unanswered Questions
- Wired: Mueller says no collusion, Barr raises a million questions
- New York Times: The Many Problems With the Barr Letter – Op-Ed
- New Yorker: No Conspiracy, No Exoneration: The Conclusions from the Mueller Report
- Washington Post: Mueller did not find the Trump campaign conspired with Russia, attorney general says
- Vox: Bill Barr’s letter summarizing Mueller’s findings, explained
- Vox: Donald Trump isn’t being charged with obstruction
- Vox: Robert Mueller was never going to end Donald Trump’s presidency
- The Atlantic: The Question the Mueller Report Has Not Answered – Why?
- Axios: Timeline: Every big move in the Mueller investigation
- New Yorker: A Former Justice Department Lawyer Reads Robert Mueller’s (and William Barr’s) Conclusions
- The Atlantic: Barr’s Startling and Unseemly Haste – The attorney general’s letter will do little to bridge the partisan divide
- Washington Post: Who is Attorney General Barr, the man deciding what parts of the Mueller report to release?
- Washington Post: 4 key takeaways from the Mueller report summary
- Mother Jones: Trump Aided and Abetted Russia’s Attack. That Was Treachery. Full Stop. – The scandal may not be a crime. It’s a betrayal.
- Lawfare: What to Make of Bill Barr’s Letter
- Slate: Bill Barr’s Weasel Words – All the ways the attorney general is spinning the Mueller report to protect Trump.
- Politico: William Barr Has Some Explaining to Do
- Washington Post: Barr’s letter, annotated
- Vox: The Barr letter is a massive political victory for Trump
- Washington Post: After lashing out for months against the Russia investigation, a combative Trump awaits Mueller’s findings
- New York Magazine: If Trump Obstructed Justice, He Can’t Be Exonerated
- New Yorker: William Barr, the Mueller Report, and the Question of Obstruction by Trump
- Washington Post: Mueller’s punt on obstruction question throws issue into the political arena
- Empty Wheel: ROD ROSENSTEIN’S UNFORTUNATE VOCABULARY: DEFINING A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION BY “LINKS” AND “COLLUSION”
- Vox: Does AG Barr’s summary of the Mueller report “exonerate” Trump? I asked 15 legal experts.
- Slate: William Barr Can’t Exonerate Donald Trump
- New York Times: As Mueller Report Lands, Prosecutorial Focus Moves to New York
- Reuters: Explainer: Why Trump’s legal woes go beyond the Mueller report
- The Hill: Bharara: ‘Donald Trump is not out of legal jeopardy’
- New Yorker: The Questions About Trump’s Businesses That Are Still Unanswered After the Mueller Report
- Washington Post: What we still don’t know about the Mueller probe – Analysis
- New York Times: Preet Bharara Remembers His Busy Tenure as a U.S. Attorney
- Washington Post: Finding truth and civility in court – Review by Quinta Jurecic
- NPR: Fired By Trump, Preet Bharara Describes The Justice System He Served
The Politics
- New York Times: Trump Claims ‘Total Exoneration,’ but Report Is Mixed on Obstruction
- Washington Post: ‘No collusion!’ goes from a defiant mantra to a rallying cry for Trump’s reelection
- Washington Post: Trump’s allies celebrate ‘no collusion’ findings, while Democrats call for release of full report
- New York Times: For Trump and the System, Mueller’s Report Is a Turning Point and a Test
- Politico Magazine: Has the President Been Exonerated?
- Politico Magazine: Trump Didn’t Collude With Russia. So Why Does He Love Putin So Much?
- The Atlantic: Mueller Was Trump’s Nemesis—Now He’s His Greatest Asset – The president’s team is already spinning the special counsel’s conclusions as a plus for 2020.
- The Atlantic: The Mueller Probe Was an Unmitigated Success – The scandal is how much corruption it exposed—and how much turns out to have been perfectly legal.
- FiveThirtyEight: First Thoughts On The Political Fallout Of The Mueller Report
- New Yorker: After the Mueller Report, the Dream of a Sudden, Magic Resolution to the Trump Tragedy Is Dead
- Vox: House Democrats want Attorney General Bill Barr to testify on the Mueller report
- Politico: Hill Dems search for opening on Mueller report, Republicans see closure
- New York Times: No Impeachment in View, but Democrats Push On With Investigations of Trump
- Washington Post: Mueller report summary puts matters in Congress’s court, key Democrat says
- Politico: Battle over Mueller’s probe moves to Capitol Hill
- Washington Post: Next in Washington after Mueller: More investigations, more division — and an election
- The Atlantic: Even Without Mueller’s Report, Congress Had All the Facts It Needed
- CNN: A multi-front battle coming just behind Mueller report
- New York Times: Democratic Presidential Candidates Call for the Release of Mueller’s Full Report
- Washington Post: The Trailer: What we learned about Buttigieg 2020 this weekend
- New York Times: At Democratic Campaign Events, Mueller Report Is Barely Mentioned
- Washington Post: At campaign events, candidates aren’t only ones with opinions on Mueller report
2020
- Politico: Gillibrand goads Trump with speech in front of New York hotel
- Bloomberg: Gillibrand Kicks Off Campaign With the Trump Marquee in Backdrop
- New York Times: Kirsten Gillibrand, Outside a Trump Hotel, Calls the President a ‘Coward’
- Huffington Post: Kirsten Gillibrand Formally Announces Presidential Run Outside Trump Hotel
- Associated Press: Kirsten Gillibrand calls Trump a ‘coward’ in New York speech
- CNN: Gillibrand delivers kickoff speech in front of Trump hotel
- Vox: Kirsten Gillibrand is making paid family leave a defining issue in her 2020 run
- Albany Times-Union: ‘Desus & Mero’ hang out with Gillibrand in Troy
- Associated Press: Gillibrand seeks to improve asylum process for immigrants
- Des Moines Register: Kirsten Gillibrand says she’s the opposite of Donald Trump — that’s what she’s hoping will put her on the leaderboard
- Des Moines Register: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand links flooding to climate change, ‘the greatest threat to humanity’
- Politico: Top Gillibrand aide to leave amid questions over sexual harassment investigation
- Vox: Kirsten Gillibrand: “I had to make my choice” to call for Al Franken’s resignation
- Washington Post: Hoping for a fresh start, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand releases video, plans rally at Trump hotel
- Los Angeles Times: Bernie Sanders decries anti-Muslim violence in mosque visit and downtown L.A. rally
- The Guardian: Bernie Sanders visit shows California could hold key to 2020 victory
- San Diego Union Tribune: Bernie Sanders, rallying in San Diego, calls for Mueller report to be made public
- San Francisco Chronicle: Bernie Sanders has changed since 2016, but so has the Democratic Party
- Daily Beast: Sanders: U.S. Must Follow New Zealand’s Lead and Ban Assault Weapons
- The Hill: Biden, Sanders edge Trump in hypothetical 2020 matchups in Fox News poll
- Newsweek: PETE BUTTIGIEG JUMPS UP TO TAKE THIRD PLACE IN NEW 2020 DEMOCRATIC POLL BEHIND JOE BIDEN AND BERNIE SANDERS
- CNN: Polls show Bernie Sanders popularity among all voters is plummeting
- Vox: Bernie Sanders’s reparations comments cause rift over DSA endorsement
- The Atlantic: From a Bogus Website to Bernie Sanders’s Inner Circle
- The Intercept: The Crux of the Accusations Against David Sirota From the Atlantic’s Edward-Isaac Dovere is False
- Politico: Kamala Harris pitches big increase in teacher pay
- CNN: Kamala Harris calls for federal investment to raise teachers’ salaries
- Los Angeles Times: Kamala Harris to call for federal spending to raise teacher salaries
- Washington Post: Kamala Harris’s second big idea tells us why she’s a skilled candidate
- Washington Post: Kamala Harris makes a point in Houston: It’s not just O’Rourke and Sanders who can draw crowds
- Texas Tribune: In Houston, Kamala Harris draws large crowd, prominent Democrats in first major Texas swing
- Bloomberg: Kamala Harris Calls for U.S. Spending Hike to Boost Teacher Pay
